It’d be difficult for Gene Gregory’s defense of battery-cage egg production to be more misleading in Monday’s guest column “Battery cages are good for chickens.” Gregory’s assertions are false or ...

Please enable JavaScript to read this content. Poultry farmer Peter Kimani feeds his hens at Wakio farm. [David Njaaga, Standard] Egg production farming is a ...

Robert Procaccianti is a Narragansett resident and vice chair of the board of directors of Farm Sanctuary, a farm animal sanctuary and advocacy organization. Lawmakers took a big step back this year ...

Egg production farming is a lucrative business in Kenya. The industry has a population of 5.58 million commercial laying flocks producing about 1.6 billion eggs annually, according to the 2019 census ...

This column is in response to Karen Davis’ Dec. 8 letter to the editor and to Jason Ketola’s Dec. 6 column “See the horrors of battery cages.” United Egg Producers is concerned that the information ...

The really rather surprising result of this experiment was the lack of demonstrated preference for either the [barren] pen or the [barren] battery cages. ... Once reason why a preference was not ...

What happens on the ground matters — Your support makes it possible. We’re aiming to raise $7,000 by August 10, so we can deepen our reporting on the critical stories unfolding right now: grassroots ...

Bernadette just turned 10 years old. Last year she laid three eggs, an amazing amount given that she is, in human years, a centenarian. For the past decade, I’ve kept backyard hens, which supply me ...

The price of eggs is ever-present in the collective American mind and has been for quite some time. As H5N1 influenza (more commonly known as “bird flu”) rages across the country, already inflated egg ...

Many of the Danish organic henhouses are breeding big animal welfare problems. Poor food, illness, lack of medicines, the extraction of feathers, cannibalism and stress are all factors that contribute ...

While egg prices have been rising dramatically across the country due to an avian flu epidemic which has killed some 48 millions turkeys and chickens across the Midwest, California's increase can be ...

What constitutes the proper and ethical treatment of animals has evolved substantially over the last few decades and, inevitably, will continue to change as people better understand the animals that ...